[No longer updated] Pizza Sticks: Flameblast Totem Hierophant

Ditch the shiiiield. Without dual wielding you're missing a lot of cast speed.

Is flammability not recommended here?

How are you fareing in breaches. So far I have an very easy time against all bosses and content, but beaches are giving me a headache, which is kind of sad giving the possible returns i am missing.

Sometimes they go well but when i get swarmed and or my totems get killed fast then i am dead pretty fast. I am currently sitting at 4.2K life and 2.5k ES running - still running a tablula though. Flameblast average dmg is at 5900. My cast speed ist at about 100 while using a shield. I image if I could get my cast speed to 130 it would make things easier?

what is the recommend chest piece. I am aiming for a tukamaha shield, so i am not sure if an infermal mantle woudl be a good fit, giving i would most like have to be pure life then? If i am not using a tukohamas, then i guess infernal mantle is best in slot till i can get a 800+ ES chest.

Thoughts?

sry if this have been answered before. but why is the 6th gem Controlled Destruction Support?

i thought this is a crit build and Controlled Destruction lowers crit chance, no? thx

I watched your CI video on Phoenix. Looks good for an ignite build. Can you explain how your ES regeneration starts so fast after being hit?

Hi,

I'm also wondering about CD. I have somewhat decent gear since I got quite lucky, so with 6 PC and all effects I have about 88% crit chance, missing only about 87% crit chance from jewelry (assuming I only buy perfect jewelry). So while 95% seems to be atleast theoretically possible with high end gear, CD would absolutely wreck that.

And while it does give 44% more spell dmg it also gives you a 7% chance of doing straigh up 0 dmg. I have been wondering for a while now which skillgem would be better.

For atziri and phoenix its obviously elemental focus, no contest here.

I am far less sure for everything else though. The only two gems that come to my mind are Culling strikes (10% cast speed, 38% increased dmg, and kill bosses below 10% hp) and minion/totem resistance (19% more dmg, 54% elemental resis). My biggest problem in breaches atm is that my totems get killed as fast as they get placed so I have to whirl around like a fucking maniac placing totems and chugging my anti bleed potion. Then there ele prof. obviosuly , which I haven't tested yet.

I can see the sense of CD against high hp bosses but against enemies which die to a single crit it actually gimps your clearspeed, quite a bit too.

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Sjeg wrote:

I watched your CI video on Phoenix. Looks good for an ignite build. Can you explain how your ES regeneration starts so fast after being hit?

he took a different ascendancy path sanctify and pious path together with zealot's oath give good amount of es regen which is helpful during long boss fight like phoenix. its a slightly different playstyle than the original build, but both works i think, its a matter of preference.

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Vallenhael wrote:

Hi,

I'm also wondering about CD. I have somewhat decent gear since I got quite lucky, so with 6 PC and all effects I have about 88% crit chance, missing only about 87% crit chance from jewelry (assuming I only buy perfect jewelry). So while 95% seems to be atleast theoretically possible with high end gear, CD would absolutely wreck that.

And while it does give 44% more spell dmg it also gives you a 7% chance of doing straigh up 0 dmg. I have been wondering for a while now which skillgem would be better.

For atziri and phoenix its obviously elemental focus, no contest here.

I am far less sure for everything else though. The only two gems that come to my mind are Culling strikes (10% cast speed, 38% increased dmg, and kill bosses below 10% hp) and minion/totem resistance (19% more dmg, 54% elemental resis). My biggest problem in breaches atm is that my totems get killed as fast as they get placed so I have to whirl around like a fucking maniac placing totems and chugging my anti bleed potion. Then there ele prof. obviosuly , which I haven't tested yet.

I can see the sense of CD against high hp bosses but against enemies which die to a single crit it actually gimps your clearspeed, quite a bit too.

OP mentions Ele-Prolif for Breaches in the 1st post, suggest you test it.
Another alternative to CD when you have high crit chance is

All right. My idea was to push as high as I could with shit-tier life gear and tabula.
Shaped my atlas, did all t14-t15 except Core(doable tho, I just fucked up too much) and even crazy mod t16. And did 20 uberlab runs(without charges/gargs, one-shots are no fun). Almost deathless.

And all of it with this gear which I got on lvl78:


Stats are:
5k HP with almost no armor. You definitely need some kind of dmg reduction like armor/evasion for red maps tho. I was using flasks constantly and placing totems ahead to compensate for the lack of it.

FB in h/o with golem: 46% crit, 330% multi and 124% cast speed, 3700 avg. dmg with aoe and 5600 with conc.
Fully buffed: 73.5% crit, 154% cast speed, 8100 with conc. and 5300 aoe.

I got some cast speed nodes in skill tree instead of inc. fire damage and some more multi/chance(Assassination is just 2 nodes away from Trickery).


I do think it's possible to kill uber/shaper but the room for error is too small and attempt cost is too high right now :D

As a HC character I have some inquiries about my build.

1) Can life based flameblast totems really be succesful? I have now 6.2k life on lvl85 and could have more since didn't take life from Oak and have taken some dmg nodes over life so far. I guess something like 7k is obtainable before lvl90.

2) Why there is no discussion about excellent Kaom's Roots Titan Greaves? My argument is that movement speed doesn't matter if u use whirling blade to move. Played now 10h+ with Roots and don't have lot desire for better ms. Whirling everywhere is just enought.
They give huge +200 life as a perfect and unwavering stance which life based build just need since can't have kaom's heart for this build. Cannot be slowed (cant even be frosted or Temporal chained!) or stunned is a huge plus for almost for free using another way to move around. Don't have extra sockets but I think everything is just fittable. Running Clarity+enfeeble blashpemy+Arctic Armour. Something might be changable in that setup.

3) Do u think I could make something better in skill tree? Going to take Oak's +30 life soon. Build is kinda self adjusted. I'm thinking for aiming Tukohama's shield BUT if can somehow get Skyforth actually thinking to move ES build.

4) Not sure about my CwDT setup. lvl 6 + lvl13 Molten Shell + lvl 8 immortal call. Do u think I should go different setup or even higher with CwDT since Molten Shell is sweet. Tried Tempest Shield but it doesn't do enough.

5) Trying to solve should get more ES or more armour. Feeling that armour instead of ES is way to go.

Running now Tier 6-10 maps. Very nice clear speed and feels safe. Will have problems with higher maps since damage from totems will be lesser. Definetely aiming for augury of Penitence in uber lab near future.